Terrific News: US Overthrew Somalia Islamists

This is the best news I have heard in a very long time, as well as a welcome change of tone for long-suffering IRIS readers.

The evidence is mounting that the US and UK were involved in the stunning victory of Ethiopia over the Islamists who had taken over Somalia. Among the rules the jihadis had propagated was beheading for those who failed to pray five times per day.

SAS Hunts Fleeing Al-Qaeda Africans

An SAS team is hunting down al-Qaeda terror suspects as they try to flee Somalia, trapped between invading Ethiopian troops - assisted by U.S. special forces and American mercenaries - and the Kenyan army and SAS troops acting as "training advisers," but who have been leading operations along the border, providing a "screen" to trap terrorists.

Three key suspects, believed to be responsible for the bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and an attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, were still on the run Saturday.

The dramatic victory by Ethiopian troops was the culmination of months of preparation inside and outside Somalia by American and British special forces, and U.S.-hired mercenaries.

According to a CIA source, American intelligence and military have been bankrolling the Ethiopians since the start of last year, as well as providing them with satellite surveillance, technical, military and logistical support.

Kenyan counter-terrorism police said the wives and three children of two of the al-Qaeda main suspects were caught as they attempted to cross into Kenya.

Why is this such terrific news? Because Islamists are now actively attempting to take over the world under the rule of a single Muslim Caliph. The way to stop it is simply by opposing it on every front. This is true for the obvious reason, i.e. that human nature is such that victories embolden every expansionist movement. The second reason is almost unknown. Muslims have a command from Muhammed not to fight when the enemy is stronger. The major debate in the Muslim world is whether the West is a paper tiger given its paralysis in actually using its might. All the West needs to do to end this argument is to take off the gloves. And that is apparently what Bush and Blair have finally begun to do in Somalia.

Of course it is not knowable whether this policy will be continued by Republicans, although it is almost certain that Democrats will not.